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Gaza/Palestine – Women Create New Work & Roles Amidst the Siege

(Asmaa El Khaldi/TRTWorld) By Asmaa El Khaldi – October 3, 2018 The siege of Gaza has dried up many essential supplies, including cement. A 23-year-old civil engineer Majd Mashharawi spotted a building one day. On examining it, she found its foundation was weak. Mashharawi decided to produce bricks – much more durable than the ones they . Learn More

New Global Anti-Slavery Campaign: FOLLOW THE MONEY

ARCHIVE PHOTO: Hands are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the picture of various currencies of money in this illustration. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel Campaign aims to fight money laundering by traffickers, promote ethical investment and offer opportunities to people vulnerable to slavery. By Ellen Wulfhorst UNITED NATIONS, Sept 24, . Learn More

Kosovo – After Two Decades, Women War Rape Victims Get Recognition & War Pensions

The art installation Thinking Of You, by the Kosovan-born, London-based artist Alketa Mrripa-Xhafa, in Pristina, Kosova - 2015. Photograph: Hazir Reka/Reuters 4 August 2018 - When the war in Kosovo began, Feride Rushiti was studying medicine at the University of Tirana in Albania. After she qualified, she volunteered to treat civilian victims of . Learn More

Indonesia – The Female Face, Reality, of the Compounded Natural Disasters in Indonesia

A woman cries as people look at the damages after an earthquake and a tsunami hit Palu. Picture: AFPSource:AFP At least 800 people are dead with the toll expected to climb further from a devastating earthquake and tsunami which hit Indonesia.   Indonesia is prone to earthquakes because of its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes . Learn More

Older Women Speak Out Against Elder Abuse

Direct Link to Full 16-Page 2018 Report: https://www.ageinternational.org.uk/globalassets/documents/entitled-to-the-same-rights-eng-lowres.pdf Women from 19 countries have shared their personal experiences of elder abuse - in order to break the taboo. All over the world women are being beaten, raped, attacked, humiliated, bullied, neglected, . Learn More

Kenya – Girls Pressured for Sex in Exchange for Sanitary Products

Periods are shrouded by stigma and systemic misinformation in Kenya ( Unicef Kenya - Gangale ) Girls in Kenya are forced to have in sex in exchange for sanitary products due to the prevalence of period poverty and the shame, stigma and public health misinformation which surrounds menstruation. New exclusive research by Unicef found 65 per cent of . Learn More

India – Suicide by Women Is a Major Public Health Concern

Relatives mourn before the funeral for family members who reportedly died by suicide at their home in Burari, India, this summer. Photo by Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times/Getty Images   By Kamala Thiagarajan – September 25, 2018 In June, M., a 28-year-old woman jumped from the second floor of her home in Madurai, India — 20 feet above a rocky, . Learn More

China – Desperate & Hard Lives of Elderly Rural Widows of China

My heart broke when I learned of the incredibly hard lives of the elderly widows in China’s remote villages. They have nothing, and no one gives them anything. Their husbands often died leaving a mountain of medical bills behind. For some of them, their husbands committed suicide when they learned they had a terminal illness, as they knew that they . Learn More

Gender Equality at the United Nations General Assembly

Students carry the flags of United Nations Member States during the annual Peace Bell Ceremony held in observance of the International Day of Peace (21 September), ahead of the 70th session of the General Assembly Photo: UN Photo/Amanda Voisard September 19, 2018 - The largest yearly meeting of world leaders! What better time than this to . Learn More

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